Research Team

At the Ambulante Lab (Spanish for “mobile”) we study the next generation of robust Multi-Robot Systems. We hope to design and implement fault‑tolerant robotic teams and create coordination strategies that ensure reliability in dynamic, real‑world environments. Below are some of the awesome students that I have advised for research projects.

Graduate Students (Current)

Johnny Francis Rourke

Program: M.S. Mechanical Engineering
Research: Planning for Heterogeneous Multi-robot Systems.
Status: Joined Winter 2026.
Contact: LinkedIn

Jorge Jose Ramirez

Program: M.S. Electrical Engineering
Research: Large Language Models for Multi-robot Planning.
Status: Joined Fall 2025.
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Franco Antonio Abullarade

Program: M.S. Electrical Engineering
Research: Robot-to-Robot Task Handoffs.
Status: Joined Fall 2025.
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Undergraduate Researchers

Christopher Tumbokon (BEACoN)

Major: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Embedded Systems
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Caitlin Osorio (BEACoN)

Major: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Robotics
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Jay Rajesh (BEACoN)

Major: Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine Learning
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Jorge Jose Ramirez (BEACoN)

Major: Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Robotics
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Graduate Student (Alumni)

Wyatt Dunton Colburn

Program: M.S. Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Hallucination Techniques for Self-Supervised Synthetic Datasets for Mobile Robots
Status: Thesis defended (Dec 2025), Graduated (Jun 2025)
Contact: LinkedIn